Research

Working papers:
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  • Pastoralism and Female Entrepreneurship [new version coming soon]
 
  • Fertility and Child Well-Being: The Role of Women's Historical Productivity, with Joseph Henrich​​
​Published papers:

  • On the Origins of Restricting Women’s Promiscuity [PDF]
              forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies,
              Winner of the UWIN Best Paper Award on Gender Economics 2018,
              Link to NBER SI Video Presentation

  • The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Time, Risk, and Social Preferences [PDF]
               forthcoming, Management Science,
               with Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde 

  • Tabulated Nonsense? Testing the Validity of the Ethnographic Atlas [PDF]
               with Duman Bahrami-Rad and Joseph Henrich, Economics Letters, 2021, 204, 109880

  • Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences [PDF]
               AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, pp. 310--323 
               with Benjamin Enke and Armin Falk

  • Global Evidence on Economic Preferences [PDF]
               Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133(4), pp. 1645--1692 (Lead Article) 
               with Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde

  • Representative Evidence on Lying Costs [PDF]
               Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, pp. 96--104
               with Johannes Abeler and Armin Falk

  • No Evidence For an Effect of Testosterone Administration on Delay Discounting in Male University Students
               Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2013, 38(9), 1814--1818
               with Georgia Ortner, Matthias Wibral, Thomas Dohmen, Dietrich Klingmüller, Armin Falk, and Bernd Weber

  • The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures [PDF]
                Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4(1), 453--478
                with Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, and Fabian Kosse